For the first time in his life, Empress Wu's arm failed to twist his thigh.

She refused to leave Luoyang no matter what. However, when Li Zhi privately put forward her ardent hope for a honeymoon not as emperor, but as a husband, she had to make a certain degree of concession. It was only at this time that she realized that she had indeed ignored Li Zhi for more than a year, but this concentrated compensation was too inconsistent with her expectations.

The problem is that Li Zhidu has already announced such a thing in the court as the emperor, and the prime ministers have passed it silently, where else can she go to find someone to object? Now the plan is to stay in Jiucheng Palace for a few days, and come back as soon as the day is cool.

When Empress Wu acquiesced to the matter of going to Jiucheng Palace with Li Zhi to escape the summer, the court suddenly fell into unprecedented busyness from top to bottom. The prime ministers were busy taking stock of the things that needed to be decided by the two Taishang, the officials were counting the luanjia and equipment needed for this trip, and the people in the household department were thinking about the expenses.

Among them, Di Renjie, who served as Duzhilang, looked at the obvious increase in income and the obvious decline in expenditure over the past year, and couldn't help but sigh---- even if the Taishang couple were light and simple, the cost would not be less. It's just that in order to show filial piety, the emperor and the prince have taken out a lot of private money to provide sponsorship, and the pressure on the household department is much less.

This suggestion of private money to fund my father and mother's honeymoon is needless to say that it is Li Xian's proposal, and by the way, he also pulled in his emperor brother. As soon as this proposal came out, the government and the opposition were in an uproar, but Li Zhi, the emperor, nodded happily again and again. Lian Zan's son knows filial piety. Although Empress Wu said that he was annoyed with many things, for the first time in his life, he did not consider the problem from a political point of view, and privately invited Li Xian to teach him a lesson, and the matter passed peacefully.

The two brothers started up, and of course Li Xian had to be funny, and he took a part from the not-so-honest family background and happily offered it--- he only had one question in mind. That is, he can be crowned later, he can get married later, and his free days will be a lot bigger. As for Li Xulun and Li Lingyue, two small points who have not yet lived outside, it is natural that Li Xian will provide such a share.

Li Zhi's enthusiasm for the summer vacation of Jiucheng Palace was unprecedentedly high, which also caused the vigorous and resolute travel in disguise. It took only seven days to prepare, and everything was ready. Seven days later. The supreme Emperor Taishang of the Tang Dynasty and the Empress Taishang and his wife left Luoyang City with more than 100 retinues and 300 people of the Yulin Army and drove to Jiucheng Palace to escape the summer. Li Xian personally led hundreds of officials to send out the Dingding Gate, and immediately directed the manpower to deploy a new round of heatstroke prevention and cooling work.

He was also really fainted by the heat. In the past seven days, the temperature in the interior of Luoyang City has risen a lot, and it is actually the hottest summer in Li Xian's memory, and there are a lot of heat strokes among officials. Datang's government agencies were originally staffed down, and there were not many redundant officials. As a result, there is a shortage of manpower. In addition, there is also the imperial examination, and the only remaining group of officials is eager for everyone to have a doppelganger.

On this kind of hot day, even if Li Xian originally hoped that Li Hong could come out to help a little, he didn't dare to work this fragile emperor now. If he is so busy with heat stroke and fainting or something like that, I'm afraid that he will be in even greater trouble. It was only then that he felt how much pressure his mother's departure had brought to people---- Li Hong had completely become a stamping machine, and he was so busy that he didn't even have time to sleep.

God, he still has two pregnant women in his family to take care of. Can you drop a few helpers?

God naturally couldn't respond to Li Xian's prayers, but he also helped to get through the rain. After a heavy rain. The heat in the city finally dropped a little, and although there was still a dry heat in the air, I tasted the same taste before, and the heat was bearable at this time. Rao is like this, Li Xian immediately ordered people to remove the lotus pond in his backyard. In addition, a pond of 10 zhang square was excavated. In addition, grape trellises were erected on top to provide shade.

There are many people and great strength, and there are many ditches near Luoshui in Luoyang. Bringing in the water is not a problem at all. It's just that in order to cultivate to the same height as Li Xian's requirements, the craftsmen spent a lot of effort. On the day of completion, as soon as Li Xian, who had returned from the East Palace exhausted, heard the news, he rushed in without even eating, took off his clothes and jumped into the pool.

If it weren't for the immorality and loss of identity, he would have liked to swim back to Luoshui every day, where would he have to dig this kind of swimming pool at home?

The only pity is that there is no cement and no tiles in these years, and the swimming pool can only be paved with green bricks underneath. But even so, the bill sent by Helan Zhou also listed a large number. But in order to swim this summer, it was all worth it. What's more, this swimming pool uses live water, which leads directly to Luoshui through a ditch, and there is a filtration and sedimentation measure in the middle, which is already very advanced.

There was such a strange thing at home, Helan Yan and the others were originally curious, and when they heard that Li Xian came back and rushed over there directly, they couldn't help but run to see the excitement, and even Qu Tushenruo and Xu Yan, who were already four months pregnant, also came. The sight of the pool full of clear water made the eyes of a group of women all light up.

This hot day is to wear the thinnest Bozhou light face, it is not cool at all, if you can soak in the pool, is it not the way to cool down? Seeing Li Xian swimming freely and freely in it, the eldest sister suddenly burst into flames.

When I didn't have children, I wanted to conceive one, but now I have it, but I can't go anywhere, I have to be bored at home all day, and even when I walk, there will be two maids by my side for fear of bumping into each other. If others are willing to endure this, but she is the most active, where can she endure it? The thought of going into the water was basically an extravagant hope, and that she would have to wait for another six months for this difficult day, she had a temper with Li Xian. Even Xu Yan, who has always been gentle and demure, showed great envy at this moment.

So, when Li Xian climbed up from the wet water and was satisfied, what he saw was the eyes of a group of women who were either resentful or angry, envious or longing, so frightened that he took a step back and almost fell into the water. Of course, he knew that he was so busy these days that his feet didn't touch the ground, and he obviously snubbed a group of beautiful wives, and he came back today and was greedy for enjoyment, so he quickly salivated and said a good word.

And for the irritability of the two pregnant women, he didn't have a good solution. It was easy to think that he could go to a manor outside the city to escape the summer, but he was glared back by Qu Tushenruo fiercely.

"It's going to be hot for a while after the beginning of autumn, could it be that Xiao Xu and I have to live outside for a month? I don't care, you have so many ghost ideas, no matter what method you use, anyway, I can't live that kind of days at home all day! ”

This kind of strong tone is not the first time Li Xian has experienced it, so he has to agree to come down first. This night, he couldn't help but put his arm around Arlo and asked her how she felt when she was pregnant. He really didn't understand, Ah Luo didn't have such a big temper when she was pregnant with the two, why did the eldest sister become more and more popular as if she had eaten dynamite?

"Fool! How can Sister Shenruo be compared to me? When the name was decided, Ah Luo was respectful to the three Ming media who were marrying, but as time went by, almost all of them were called by age, and she was a lot more casual, "I have been stuffy inside since I entered the palace, but Sister Shenruo has always been outside, let her stay at home, I am afraid that it will be more uncomfortable than killing her." You probably don't know that Xiuning and Ah Li are also in this situation, I heard that Cheng Dashao and Xue Gongzi both have headaches. ”

Li Xian suddenly realized, no wonder he saw Cheng Bohu and Xue Dingshan always having blue noses and swollen faces these days, and daring to love the mother-in-law at home had a big temper after she was pregnant! So, he's lucky? Although the eldest sister likes the roar of the Hedong lion twice, at least she hasn't moved her hand against him, otherwise, if she goes to the court with two black circles......

He shuddered suddenly, not daring to imagine what kind of expressions the old Shangguan and the others would have when they saw this situation. So, how to appease the pregnant tigress at home was put on his first agenda at this moment.

The attrition of the imperial court due to heat stroke is still continuing, but due to the successive return of officials who had previously recuperated, it can basically barely maintain a minimum level of sufficient personnel. When the final seventeen-person list of Jinshi was sent, Li Xian skimmed it roughly, and immediately put the four people into the East Palace establishment under the pretense of public help, which made the old Shangguan jump to his feet in anger.

"This jinshi has to pass the selection before he can be appointed as an official, Your Highness is too child's play!"

"There should be an extraordinary way at an extraordinary time!"

Li Xian's answer was unusually crisp and neat. The affairs officials of the three provinces have been reduced countless times, so why is there a shortage of people in his East Palace? Of course, taking advantage of this opportunity to take down Song Xian is also one of his purposes. However, when he triumphantly returned to the East Palace to meet the four Jinshi who had come to report, looked at their excited faces, and asked for their names, he suddenly discovered an extremely important fact.

That Song, who is known as a famous minister and is as famous as Yao Yuanzhi, is only seventeen years old this year! He didn't pay attention to his age before, and he never thought that he would be younger than him, my God!

You must know that before Yao Yuanzhi came to his Yongwang Mansion as a subordinate official, he studied practice at home for three years of filial piety, and then followed him to run around and experience countless experiences, and now it is easy to show a little fame, how long does Song, a seventeen-year-old boy, have to sharpen his skills? The so-called famous ministers and ministers, they have to be sharpened first!

Now that he is short of people, he doesn't have time to think about so many joints, so he directly assigns Song to Yao Yuanzhi with a stroke. This person is coming, so he has to play a role, otherwise what does he want people to do? Even Gao Zheng, who was doing a good job in the outside business, insisted on getting people over a few days ago and handed over the financial power of the East Palace.

When will this damn summer pass?